Monday, October 18th

8:30-9:30am

BREAKFAST PROVIDED (337 West Hall)

Session Chair: Kenji Kadota

9:30-9:40am         

Welcoming by Gordon Kane

9:40-10:20am       

The cosmological moduli problem revisited.
Scott Watson (Syracuse University)

10:20-11:00am

Non-thermal right-handed sneutrino as cold dark matter.
Takeo Moroi (University of Tokyo)

11:00-11:30am     

COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)

11:30-12:10pm           

Non-thermal dark matter and its observational implication
Kazunori Nakayama (High-Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

12:15-2:10pm

LUNCH BREAK

Session Chair: Konstantin Bobkov

2:15-2:55pm         

The Cosmological Moduli Solution(s)                    
Bobby Acharya (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics)

3:00-3:40pm         

Bounds on moduli masses in Calabi-Yau string models.
Claudio Scrucca (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

3:40-4:30pm   

COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)

4:30-5:10pm   

Holographic cosmology and inflation.
Tom Banks (Rutgers University & University of California)

5:15-5:55pm

Towards a dual to inflation.
Justin Khoury (University of Pennsylvania)

6:00-7:30pm   

RECEPTION (337 West Hall)

Tuesday, October 19th
Session Chair: Tim Cohen

9:15-9:55am   

Weak-scale freeze-in of dark matter.
Lawrence Hall (University of California, Berkeley)

10:00-10:45am     

COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)

10:45-11:25am           

Hidden baryons as dark matter.
David Morrissey (TRIUMF)

11:30-12:10pm

Massive gravitino decays and the cosmological lithium problem.
Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)

12:15-2:10pm       

LUNCH BREAK

Session Chair: Ian Woo Kim 

2:15-2:55pm

Cosmological implications of electroweak scale phase transitions.
Daniel Chung (University of Wisconsin)

3:00-3:40pm         

Alternatives to the thermal WIMP miracle - a top-down perspective.
Piyush Kumar (Columbia University)

3:40-4:30pm               

COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)

4:30-5:10pm   

Axion Cold Dark Matter in Standard and Non-Standard Cosmologies
Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

Wednesday, October 20th

Session Chair: Jing Shao

9:15-9:55am         

Modulus Decay at the MeV Scale: From Problem to Progress
Kuver Sinha (Texas A&M University)

10:00-10:45am     

COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)

10:45-11:25am     

Non-thermal gravitino dark matter in gauge mediation etc.
Ryuichiro Kitano (Tohoku University)

11:30-12:10pm           

Probing reheating temperature at the LHC with long-lived staus.
Koichi Hamaguchi (Tokyo University)

12:15-2:10pm       

LUNCH BREAK

Session Chair: Eric Kuflik

2:15-2:55pm

Dark Matter of Dark Energy
Alexander Vikman (CERN)

3:00-3:40pm         

Minimalist approach to Kahler moduli stabilization in Type IIB orientifolds and constraints on the string axiverse.
Konstantin Bobkov (Ohio State University)

3:40-4:30pm   

COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)

4:10-5:10pm   
Department Colloquia

How to do six impossible things before breakfast; numerical calculation of very unlikely events
Len Sander (University of Michigan)

Thursday, October 21st

Session Chair: Minjoon Park

9:15-9:55am         

Matrix Inflation
Amjad Ashoorioon (Uppsala University)

10:00-10:45am     

COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)

10:45-11:25am     

Asymmetric dark matter from a GeV hidden sector.  
Timothy Cohen (University of Michigan)

11:30-12:10pm

The simplest asymmetric dark matter.
Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)

12:15-2:10pm       

LUNCH BREAK

Session Chair: Moira Gresham

2:15-2:55pm

Modification of the cosmological thermal history due to primordial black holes and gravitational wave background.
Alexander Dolgov (University of Ferrara, INFN & ITEP)

3:00-3:40pm   

Guidelines of the flavour structure of G2-MSSM models.
Liliana Velasco-Sevilla (ICTP-Italy, Cinvestav-Mexico)

3:40-4:30pm

COFFEE PROVIDED (337 West Hall)